https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/heres-goes-presidents-decision-launch-nuclear-weapons

It looks like, maybe, there are some protections in place for a"screw it, screw them" type decision. The link doesn’t offer me too much confidence, though.

I have confidence that most in positions of power “would never”, but some of them are not behaving in predictable ways, particularly the president.

Cult of personality. Once that personality is gone, so will be MAGA.

Soaking of definitions: “conservatism”, what is it? Do we have a definition that conservatives agree with?

“Ayres said Trump “clearly will remain the leader of the party for the next two years, but I also think the knee-jerk obeisance to whatever his whims are at the moment is likely over.””

Thanks for saying this out loud. How did that make you feel, by the way?

I did indeed mean gamete, and thank you for the correction.

I wonder if they’re required to satisfy the federal standard for sex identification. That would require more than a genital exam. It would require capturing a zygote.

Pretty invasive.